Students filled Cruz Plaza with blankets and chairs as Bearstock started around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 14 and came to an end at 7:30 p.m. The annual concert, put on by QuadWorks, featured three separate student acts and professional band Hot Chelle Rae and Decatur-born and Grammy-nominated artist B.o.B.
Carly Lenhardt ‘26, a journalism student and Mercer beach volleyball player, has been building her photography business for seven years. The freelance photographer specializes in graduation photos every spring semester while balancing her craft with the responsibilities of being a student athlete.
BearSigns, Mercer’s sign language club, held a meeting to spotlight the history of Black American Sign Language during a painting activity on Wednesday. The presentation screened a report from ABC News, “Celebrating and preserving Black American Sign Language," which showcased and explained the history and preservation of BASL.
Eight senior art students will be showing off their work at the McEachern Art Center in downtown Macon for the department’s 2026 Senior Art Exhibition April 10-21.
Mercer’s chapter of the National Society for Black Women in Medicine hosted its first annual Miss NSBWM Pageant, crowning Kimora Williams ‘27 Sunday evening.
Chloe Paulk ‘26 started her first business, “Chloe’s Sweets,” selling baked goods when she was a 10-year-old saving up for a car once she turned 16. But what started as a side gig became a passion project that Paulk has carried throughout grade school and college.
MerServe, Mercer University’s student service organization, hosted its annual Hunger and Homelessness Week last week as the organization celebrates it tenth year of service on campus. MerServe was created by Margaret Rooyakkers '19, who is now the assistant director of service and civic engagement at Mercer, in 2015.
Macon’s historic Capitol Theatre — built as a bank in 1897, converted into a cinema house two years after the start of World War I and most recently operated as a performance venue — has changed hands once again. Mercer University has purchased the building on Second Street from the Moonhanger Group, a local restaurant and catering company owned by Wes Griffith.
While Mercer has a strict policy on the use of generative artificial intelligence in the classroom, professors at the University have differing opinions on AI overall.
Michael Thurmond, who is in Georgia's gubernatorial race as a Democrat, and lieutenant governor candidate Richard Wright spoke at Mercer about navigating predominantly white institutions as Black people on Feb. 17. The panel was part of a series commemorating Black History Month and was hosted by the Mercer University National Council of Negro Women.
Mercer’s Tift College of Education provides undergraduate and graduate students alike a unique way into the education field through field placements across Macon's Bibb County School District.
The Mercer Robotics Club is planning a retrieval mission for a weather balloon they launched from lawn of the Godsey Science Center into the atmosphere in partnership with NASA on Saturday, Feb. 7.
A consortium of experts in political science and authoritarian states spoke Friday in Toney Auditorium during a “teach-in” event organized by Mercer Associate Professor of English Elizabeth Harper.
Mercer’s Counseling and Psychological Services is relaunching a peer counseling program this semester for students who may feel more comfortable talking to trained students than CAPS counselors.
Mercer’s Counseling and Psychological Services has initiated new programs and strategies to fit the needs of students on campus in recent years. The organization partners with many offices and organizations across campus to support students, including campus health, Housing and Residence Life and TRIO programs.
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